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...Despite aggressive legislation from Minority Leader Trent Lott, the Senate has declined to schedule a vote on a six-month moratorium on cloning into this year's docket (which was enthusiastically endorsed in the House pre-9/11). Apparently they prefer to wait until 2002 - when presumably everyone will have more time to debate the intellectually demanding subject matter. On the stem cell front, efforts of anti-abortion activists were also stymied by the terror attacks, when their congressional allies were forced to sideline challenges to President Bush's announcement that he will allow limited stem cell research...
...past month. But he was getting nowhere until fellow Senators began hearing from constituents. G.O.P. Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee mentioned the idea at an economic conference at Princeton and was startled by the enthusiasm it generated among business leaders and students alike. Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott, on a trip home to Mississippi, says the idea was talked up by a satellite-dish installer and the clerk at his dry cleaner in Pascagoula. The plan also won support from state and local governments--themselves major employers facing budget crunches. All sides are back at the negotiating table on Capitol...
...lawmakers, the Sunday morning political talk shows are a forum for positioning, not analysis, and so when Minority Leader Trent Lott calls the Senate a "black hole of inaction" and wonders if it's time to "cut bait" on an economic stimulus package, you have to consider that at least partly bluff. But when the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, Majority Whip Harry Reid, declares legislative black holes a good thing - "Thank goodness we're here and we're in control of the Senate" - you have to consider the possibility that America will not be getting an economic stimulus...
Dukakis—who was Massachusetts’ chief executive from 1975-79 and again from 1983-91—mentioned Sen. Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) as one such GOP member...
...have proposed a host of bills to fix that, by giving Amtrak and the states anywhere from $20 billion to $70 billion in tax-exempt bonds and loan guarantees. But despite a diverse coalition of passenger-rail supporters, from Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to his Republican counterpart Trent Lott, it's unlikely that Amtrak will control all the funding or that it will survive much longer in its current form...